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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 307

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great glare in the sky, with thehills and woods outlined against it. On a clear,still night the glare is steady, and fades graduallyaway, above and around. But on a cloudy, stormynight the scene changes. The banks of cloudscatch the light, and reflect a deep red glare, soft-ening away in the… … LIGHTING A GAS-WELL WITH A ROMAN-CANDLE. group of burning wells north of Washington, Pa.,has presented many grand and beautiful night-scenes. Though several miles apart, they appear,at a distance, to be close together, and their lightintermingles. On a dark night, with all of themburning, they make…

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